Thank you for posting this.
Trump has basically come out and now says he doesn’t trust the states.
I have so many problems with him, because I see him as a big-government progressive statist (single payer healthcare, for example) and this is one of them. He and I are polar opposites on values. I am voting for someone who respects the founders idea that power belongs to the states or the people unless it’s enumerated in the Constitution.
This is especially important in the area of who owns the land. It’s fundamental.
Anti 10th Amendment. It is in a state’s best interest to keep their public lands in tip top shape. They are money makers with the fees...taxes.
The Feds manage land so well there are wild fires in Cali every year. Government created water shortages too.
Even how much water that goes over Niagara Falls is regulated. Bet the same is true with Hoover Dam.
Trump wants to federalize Kelo.
Instead of it being a state by state decision as to whether or not the govt can take someone’s land for someone else’s personal use the fed govt will have the power to take someone’s land for someone like Trump to use for his personal gain.
Someone has a piece of land they have worked for years to make a really nice piece of property and Trump decides that would make a world class golf course at very little cost because most of the work has already been done.
Since that land would have an ag exemption, D Trump’s golf course would bring in a lot more tax revenue.
With Kelo at a federal level, Trump wouldn’t have to worry about dealing with state law and local govt.
Fed govt just takes it for his use.
I believe he is right in the sense that some states would restrict all hunting and fishing on public land. Others may sell some of it deemed (not in state interest) or during a financial crisis. Who would that land be sold to? Probably developers or large landholders not from the state. On the flip side some states would do a better job of managing the lands than the federal government and I do not trust that one day a liberal president will close down all hunting on federally managed property “in the public interest”.